Remembrance Day Poems

 
Jacqueline,

Oh, just the other day I came across a picture of you with your horse,
and I was amazed to see how much we look...

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JUST A DAY
A REMEMBRANCE
IN SOME TYPE OF WAY
A TIME TO EXPLORE
REJOICE, SING PRAISES
THANKFULNESS, GRATEFUL
THE MOMENTS OF SILENCE
QUIETNESS, MEDITATION
RELAXATION.

WHAT A DAY
IN THE HOURS
THE TIME HAS GONE...

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I stopped looking up at him standing so tall
And I wondered how they stood to the end of it all
When it was mud and blood...

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Hello My Little Chickadees

It's not all Eggs and Chocolate.
It's not all Bunnies and Hearts.
It's just to say I love thee,
From the bottom of my Heart.

I...

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Sleep our glorious ancestors, sleep!
Do not be disturbed.
We,
your descendants would never betray
The blood you have shed to liberate
Our land.
The Land of:
Homer and Hesiod
Aeschylus and Euripides
Socrates...

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As Dawn Woke, Uttering Its First Shining Rays

As dawn woke, uttering first shining of its rays
Night's darkest veil vanished into whispering winds
Rooster's clear crow, signaling...

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When

Remembrance day cometh

And we are bent over a barrel

Trying to discover common ground

If none can be found

Lest us rather dig out all our
remnants of old...

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Lest We Forget 
I can hear him now , calling me , lost in the dark , in the deep seas of Normandy, I can...

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On a wind sheltered hillside, 
Where the white crosses stand,
Ranks and files draw attention, 
Heroes honoured our land
They bleed out in the moonlight, 
To her...

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My mind is lost, but I am happy
The mirror sees differently, but I ignore
My favourite colours are mystery, isolation, and quiet
My favourite rhythms are softness,...

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As we gather together once again,
Greeting old school mates and dear old friends,
For a reunion of many years,
We may laugh and even shed some tears.

As...

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(Digging My Own Grave Series)

To rest.
To rest me.
To rest you.
To rest my I.
To rest my eyes.
To rest my beliefs.
To rest my opinions.
To rest my judgments.
To...

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It may look skin deep but it goes all the way to a soul 

A scar on society and the skin of an innocent 

numerals...

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I believe one of the reasons the Creator gave us memories is so…once the movie is our mind is played…we can remember what brought us...

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What did the Turks do at ANZAC
When the Diggers left not looking back
Did they wander through the trenches and dugouts
Wondering in the end what was...

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